Right, read over the m being optional in the helpfile.
I didn't know you could use it to change the // in mIRC too, knew it's possible in Perl...

As for the extra :* let's blame that on a faulty keyboard grin

Just hate that it's impractical to use (?:) to get non-capturing groups, using (? $+ $chr(58) $+ doesn't really help in make a nicer pattern crazy